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Thursday was the first time this preseason where multiple games were played on the same day, and for all those in the world who love the fall for the leaves, the cooler temperatures and the pure American beer-commercial joy of the brutal artistry in football, it was a sneak preview against the backdrop of the sound of the air conditioner.

Purple prose aside, it was also the reason that a 97-yard touchdown wasn’t even the longest play of the night by a team from Florida.

That honor belongs to the Dolphins, who, had they started this play from any farther back, would’ve had to buy a ticket to the game to sit there. David Fales of Miami found Damore’ea Stringfellow for a 99-yard bomb against the Falcons to seal a 23-20 win and send both Super Bowl participants to defeat in the preseason opener: